Lost Treasures Placements April 2008 to March 2009

The Lost Treasures Group placed the following items for this year April 2008 to March 2009:

• Two sets of newspaper clippings
• Family Bibles: Samuel Clark, Edwin Clark / Butler, Britton / Moon and Mosher / Forbes Family Bibles.
• Family Photos: The Edna Banta Photo Collection: Simmons, Harve, Simmons, Dodge, Barrow, Bunn, Galbraith, Walker and Wyatt; the Gulick photo collection; and the Blanchard photos.
• Miscell. Documents: Lastly we found a home for the Jedediah Miller and Jonas Stevens document collection which included Land Deeds, an account passbook, a general inventory of documents, a will for Jedediah Miller. If you would like further information on these Documents please contact the San Diego Genealogical Society email SDGSinfo@yahoo.com

Our average time for placement was 3.5 months. This average will probably increase due to increased complexity of the miscellaneous documents and scanning and transcribing Family Bibles that have not yet been published in the San Diego Genealogical Society's publication "Leaves and Saplings". We will offer short term research projects for other researchers in the San Diego Genealogical Society.

Status of Banta and Simmons photos

Due to the large number of photos from the Banta family and related surnames. I am attempting to donate them to the UC Riverside Special Collection archives (which requires a gift deed). Sonoma State University, Special Collection seemed interested in the Simmons related photos and I am in the process of figuring out an estimate for postage required to send the photos. I have been told that I can get the library rate from the USPS.

Banta Photos up on Lost Treasures Website

I completed the thumbnails for photos in our Edna nee Banta Munford inventory and posted them on the temporary (Until September) home for our Lost Treasures Committee Website:
http://gsocolic.tripod.com/html/photos.html
Send inquiries regarding these photos or larger format photo requests to:

The San Diego Genealogical Society
mailto:SDGSinfo@yahoo.com

The surnames included in the photos are mostly Banta and Simmons.

Banta Photos, Legacy 7.0 tutorial, Julian visit

I visited the Pioneer Cemetery Julian, California yesterday! We ascended "boot hill" where the oldest cemetery is located. I wanted to find out if anyone has published a book on who is buried there but the Julian Museum is not open during the week. I guess I could have gone to the library but I was overheating and needed to get inside out of the sun!

I am still plugging away at those Banta Photos. I can't wait to get them scanned and up on the Lost Treasures website! I really want to get them into the hands of the Banta descendant from the Arizona State Genealogical society.

I just received my Legacy 7.0 tutorial book. I can can look at a map of my ancestors and there are some new search features I need to figure out how to use. I suppose my biggest problem is that I have most of my genealogical data in a page with footnote format (sources are with in the text) so I have to figure out how to resolve that problem.

Lost Treasures SDGS

Today I received a reply for the Banta/Simmons photos I have been researching for the society. The person who replied was a direct descendant. I am thrilled! I still have "loose" photos to inventory for the Lost Treasures department.

I am waiting for an appraisal for some other photos that the society may or may not keep.

I am looking forward to going to the So Cal Genealogical Society's Jamboree in Burbank at the end of next week. Last year I learned some really good techniques for researching old photos that I applied to my work for the Lost Treasures Committee.

I am also trying to work on a Lost Treasures portion of the SDGS website using Net Objects Fusion.

San Diego Genealogical Society Lost Treasures

I am working of several different projects for the Lost Treasures Committee. I am trying to assemble Family Bible scans and pdf files into a "Lost Treasures" website. The photograph inventory is about half way done and I am working on the following families and looking for the next of kin or archive in the nearest locality to the families.

Banta/Simmons of Ohio>Iowa>Bakersfield, CA

Purl Wyatt family of Riverside, CA and San Diego, CA

At the Society we have three file cabinets full of "Raw Notes" notes from member's family research that they have donated. There is apparently a "Banta" file there. One of the committee members thought that there may be a relationship between the Banta/Simmons family and the Wyatt family. I have not yet found any evidence of that.

Due to a new discoveries of original and copies of vital records in the Raw Notes (we are compiling information for a future online database) it looks like the Lost Treasures Committee will be busier than we originally thought!

GS.